This courtroom had seen so many tears in 2025.
The place where head-hung child defendants as young as 13 wearing chains on their wrists and ankles were led in by burly stone-faced bailiffs. Where stricken families cry and sit in rock-hard wooden gallery pews built not for comfort but to remind everybody courtrooms are where hammers can fall.
This York County Family Court on Main Street is where children accused of crime go, and their families sit in the same room as the weeping family whose child is dead from bullets. Family court is also where divorces are hashed out, and custody of children is determined, and social services cases are heard…